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Editor’s Note: This essay by Rabbi Steven G. Sager is reposted with permission from Sichaconversation.org. “I want my kids to say Kaddish for me after I die, but I can’t explain to them why, or what Kaddish means to me. [Read more…]

In this week’s Jewish Sacred Aging Podcast, Rabbi Address goes on location at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City to interview a long-time colleague, Rabbi Edythe Mencher, who coordinates the Union [Read more…]

I was one of the lucky ones who grew up in a loving, happy, fun-filled home with little drama except for the Broadway musicals blaring from speakers that were the latest in sound technology and [Read more…]

Contributed by Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber and Marilyn Price, coordinators HEVREH, A Community of Adult Jewish Learners The liberal movements of Judaism emphasize the need to be open and inclusive. Congregations follow their movements’ examples [Read more…]

Editor’s Note: Joining the Jewish Sacred Aging contributor network this week is Rabbi Anthony Fratello, senior rabbi since 2000 at Temple Shaarei Shalom, in Boynton Beach, FL. Like many other communities across the United States, [Read more…]

I had the opportunity very recently to spend a weekend teaching about some of our aging and baby boomer work at Congregation Sinai in Milwaukee. As part of the weekend I had the opportunity to [Read more…]

Just off the red-eye from Seattle, Washington. A beautiful city with wonderful people. I was in Seattle for some of my Union for Reform Judaism work on our project on aging and baby boomers and [Read more…]

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Jewish Sacred Aging is a forum for the Jewish Community with resources and texts that feature discussions on the implications of the revolution in longevity for Baby Boomers and their families. We encourage you to participate in the conversation!